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“The new auto theft impact survey released Tuesday by Équité Association, a non-profit anti-fraud organization, found just 18 per cent of respondents believe vehicles being sold today can withstand key fob attacks, reprogramming and other m…”
“Ultimately, there’s just 24 hours in the day and there’s two eyeballs in the head,” he said. “That’s never going to change.” Given time and attention constraints, he added, “IPs are just incredibly powerful.”
“Freely is already watched by over 1 million people across the UK, having doubled its growth from 500,000 viewers in roughly three months between September and December 2025.”
“an image posted by Kutkov claimed that the Starlink Mini 2 will come with a built-in battery. The original Mini uses an external battery, but by incorporating this into the body of the Mini 2, Starlink will be able to reduce the clutter as…”
“In light of these developments, and in recognition of the important role employees have played in ASML’s success to date and will continue to play in the future, the Board of Management has decided to grant all eligible employees worldwide…”
“While I was in Bangalore for the conference a private Indian company, called Skyroot successfully launched its Vikram I rocket and delivered a satellite into low earth orbit”
“It says it now has more than 6,000 livestreams taking place every day.”
“The survey found 72 per cent of Canadians want those security measures built into vehicles during production, rather than sold to them as add-on products after purchase.”
“Today, Stoica and Yang are publicly launching SkyPilot, backed by $20 million seed funding, UnHerd learned exclusively. Lux Capital led the round with Coatue and Amplify Partners also writing checks.”
“During the tournament, the platform grew to more than two million monthly active users and recorded its biggest viewing day since launch, highlighting its progress towards becoming the UK's largest TV device platform by 2030.”
“Kutkov says this cycle is dropping from the Starlink Mini’s 75% to a mere 11%, which could “result in lower uplink speeds,” the leaker believes.”
“Samsung offered nearly 75% of its employees a bonus of around $370,000 as the company benefited from the growing demand for AI infrastructure”
“It is for these reasons that the IEEE SpaceTech initiative was started this year. [...] IEEE can help with international consensus standards for space communications, traffic control and debris management in space, and on the use of AI and…”
“Now, the former kickboxer boasts more than 10 million followers on X, formerly Twitter - and a worldwide profile.”
“CEO Zongheng Yang, who interned at Databricks when it was roughly ten people, says the bigger opportunity isn’t hunting cheap compute, it’s squeezing more out of GPUs companies already own. “If you spend like $100 million per year on GPUs,…”
“forecasts from 3 Reasons, independent analysts who specialise in research about TV platform dynamics, suggest that Freely's popularity will continue to skyrocket, reaching 10.5 million UK households by 2034.”
“According to Kutkov, the Starlink Mini 2 will clock in at a slightly smaller size, with its measurements dropping from 236 x 276mm to 225 x 273mm.”
“Its rival, SK Hynix, gave employees bonuses of about $477,000 this year and is reported to pay nearly $900,000 next year”
“Kodiak announced a multi-year partnership with energy tech provider Baker Hughes to target AI power demand with 1.8 gigawatts of behind-the-meter power.”
“The broader AI orchestration market is projected to grow from around $14 billion in 2026 to more than $60 billion by 2034.”
“rather than falling a predicted 10% between 2023 and 2025, the number of homes without broadband actually fell a whopping 30% and stands at 1.2 million today.”
“That's over 90,000 new tracks, all of which weren't made by people.”
“Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) CEO C.C. Wei announced in May this year that the company's employee profit-sharing payouts would increase by more than 30% on average this year”
“the company now owns an estimated 80% of the AI GPU market by revenue.”
“Nvidia bought Run:ai for roughly $700 million in 2024 to solve a version of this problem, then open-sourced it.”
“Freely has also seen a rise in the proportion of users returning to the platform daily, reflecting increasing loyalty to the platform, Everyone TV has confirmed to GB News.”
“as we heard in April that 44% of tracks were AI-made, and in December 30% of tracks were AI.”
“a long white banner carrying the names of more than 4,500 employees who had signed a petition demanding stronger protection against layoffs—a document the Alphabet Workers Union describes as the largest single piece of employee feedback Go…”
“U.S. community water systems could need $10 billion to $58 billion in new infrastructure by 2030”
“More recently, Ackman has flexed his influence across academic, cultural, and political realms, thanks in large part to his outsize X account, which boasts 2.5 million followers.”
“Moving forward, Deezer will systematically take down AI-tracks used for streaming fraud, and those that haven’t been streamed for at least 6 months”
“Google cut 12,000 jobs in 2023 and has run several smaller rounds since, leaving employees bracing for the next notice.”
“daily demand from evaporative cooling can rise to six to 10 times the annual average during hot weather. For some planned facilities, the multiple can exceed 30”
“whose $500 million fund is looking to invest in cybersecurity defenses against the quantum hacking threat.”
“The L03, which is said to have a starting price of €35,600 (around $40,600/AU$58,000), features sporty SUV coupe styling, a 15.6-inch central infotainment display, lounge-style seating, and what the company calls its most advanced intellig…”
“Since the campaign began, Google has offered voluntary exit packages to more than 70,000 employees—a program Pichai has publicly credited to listening to staff, saying it gives people agency.”
“Large projects can draw more than one million gallons on a hot day, and some facilities under construction have received allocations of up to eight million gallons per day”
“Sauvage thinks the point when everything that is not quantum-protected can be opened like an envelope is probably seven years away.”
“The latest L03 is reported to push things further with its VLA 2.0 (Vision Language-Action) software that powers its Next Generation Pilot autonomous driving functionality. It will also be the first Chinese automaker to ship a vehicle with…”
“AWU, currently a minority union of around 1,400 members, says the pressure won't let up.”
“Without new efficiencies, the researchers estimate that U.S. water systems could need another 697 million to 1.45 billion gallons of peak capacity per day by 2030”
“Netflix used AI to produce 17 minutes of a documentary ‘twice as fast and at half the cost’”
“Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion in funding and announced a $12 billion round this week, valuing the company at $41 billion.”
“A 2024 Berkeley Lab report estimated that all U.S. data centers, not AI facilities alone, directly consumed about 17.4 billion gallons of water in 2023”
“Apple is reportedly testing an AI-based system that records customer conversations at the Genius Bar in its retail stores... The system, dubbed 'Live Notes,' transcribes and summarizes an employee’s conversation with a customer.”
“Bezos said the startup now takes up the bulk of his time, alongside work at Blue Origin and involvement in AI initiatives at Amazon.”
“It projected direct consumption from hyperscale data centers could reach 16 billion to 33 billion gallons a year by 2028”
“Japan will buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin GPUs to develop a Noetra-led AI factory for 'national physical AI.'”
“Bezos said he initially joined Prometheus as an investor in late 2024. But as he watched the company’s early progress, he realized he didn’t want to remain on the sidelines... marks Bezos’ first formal operating role since leaving Amazon’s…”
“Shaolei Ren of UC Riverside, who produced the 2024 estimate with the Post, now puts the figure closer to 15 milliliters for a GPT-4 prompt, including about five milliliters for on-site cooling”
“More than 2.2 million people clicked on or engaged with the tracker”
“Sam Altman wrote that an average ChatGPT query uses about 0.000085 gallons, or roughly 0.32 milliliters”
“KitKat’s daily social video views jumped from about 1 million to 29 million.”
“A 2025 benchmarking study, “How Hungry is AI?,” estimated less than two milliliters for efficient models across its test lengths, while some reasoning models exceeded 150 milliliters per query”
“Their model produced a water estimate of 519 milliliters, including both cooling and the water associated with electricity generation”
“It’s now valued at $1.2 billion with $168 in total funding, less than a year after Forbes first reported it was coming out of stealth with backing from the CIA’s investment arm In-Q-Tel.”
“Twenty’s software uses AI to run hacking campaigns simultaneously, automating the gruntwork of cyberwarfare. That includes identifying targets and carrying out reconnaissance, or deciding what to do once that target has been compromised.”
“Before next-generation AI was available, a cyber campaign against a single target could take months or years, Lin says. Now it’s much faster.”
“We’re trying to industrialize cyber warfare,” Lin says. “We're going from current processes that are highly artisanal to ones that can scale out industrially, where you're able to simultaneously prosecute hundreds of targets versus one at …”
“AI changes what is now possible on the offensive side, collapsing the time and effort it takes to run complex cyber operations,” he said in an emailed statement. “What once required weeks of specialized human work can run at software speed…”
“Lin says his firm uses whatever commercially-available model suits a given task, as well as any that its U.S. military and intelligence customers already operate. Khosla Ventures partner Chu says that the company should be able to weather …”
“Plus, thanks to Khosla’s investment in OpenAI, Twenty can now benefit from closer ties with Sam Altman’s $852 billion AI giant.”
“London-based Humanoid has become Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn, raising a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion valuation.”
“Humanoid has hired more than 50 veterans from Boston Dynamics, Sanctuary AI, Apptronik and 1X, Humanoid’s chief product officer Sotirios Stasinopoulos told me last month in London.”
“Humanoid says it has already run nine proof-of-concept projects across logistics, manufacturing and retail in the past year, with a tenth underway and plans to begin longer three-to-six-month commercial pilots at customer sites starting la…”
“More than 85 or 90% of the use cases can be covered by a wheel-based platform,”
“Stasinopoulos says Humanoid can achieve CE certification by next year with HMND 01, its wheeled platform.”
“Production is limited to 2,112 pieces. Hamilton says the number references the importance of 12 throughout Homer's Odyssey, which contains approximately 12,000 lines. In the epic, 12 ships sail to Troy, and Odysseus proves his identity by …”
“For Interstellar (2014), Hamilton created a prop watch that played a pivotal role in the story, allowing protagonist Cooper to transmit data to his daughter in Morse code from another dimension. The prop became so popular that Hamilton lat…”
“For Tenet, Hamilton developed a custom prop watch combining analog and digital displays to reflect the film’s shifting timelines and temporal chaos.”
“FOX One added 2.8 million new sign-ups in June alone, Antenna reports, which doesn’t account for anyone who signed up to watch in the tournament’s last three weeks.”
“The opening day of the tournament, June 11, drove 400,000 sign-ups on its own and 93% of June’s gross additions were brand-new subscribers to the service.”
“The June surge is more than 2.5 times the previous monthly best for Fox One, which added 1.1 million subscribers in January when it broadcast some Wild Card matchups of the NFL playoffs and the NFC Championship game.”
“How people signed up for FOX One also changed significantly in June: sign ups directly through Fox accounted for 40% of new users and Amazon Channels, which had accounted for a majority of new sign-ups from launch last August through May, …”
“Samsung's 65S95H OLED TV dominated both SDR and HDR performance categories, comfortably surpassing competitors like Sony and LG.”
“In fact, in the HDR section the 65S95H really crushed the competition, scoring .7 of a point higher (on a 1-5 scale) on its overall average score than its nearest rival, the Sony K75XR90M2 (Bravia 9 II).”
“In fact, three of the six contenders in this year’s Value Electronics TV shootout were RGB LED models, with the other three all using premium OLED screens built on either the Quantum Dot or Primary RGB Tandem versions of OLED technology.”
“This year’s TV Shootout® clearly demonstrated just how far premium television technology has advanced,” says Robert Zohn, President of Value Electronics. “Our goal has always been to provide consumers with an impartial evaluation under ide…”
“Back in October 2024, Poolside was an early AI star. Cofounded by former Github CTO Jason Warner, the startup had raised $500 million on a $3 billion valuation to build coding agents for governments and large companies.”
“Globally, in this weight class of the 118 billion parameter model, we are the leader.”
“Moonshot said that Kimi K3 was a 2.8 trillion parameter model— a whopping 20 times the size of Poolside’s new release.”
“Thinking Machines raised $2 billion on a $12 billion valuation in 2024.”
“Reflection, another coding agent startup that pivoted to building open source models, raised $2.5 billion at a $25 billion valuation in March.”
“It recently signed a $1 billion compute deal with neocloud Nebius as it builds its model.”
“France’s Mistral made over $200 million last year from open-weight models targeted at Western companies and governments”
“It’s still behind on some measures, but charges around two thirds less than Anthropic, and a third less than OpenAI, for the same task.”
“The entry-level iPhone 17 with 256GB now starts at ¥142,800 ($877) on Apple’s official Japan store, up roughly 10% from ¥129,800 ($797), according to the current prices on the Apple store (via Bloomberg).”
“Back in June, I reported that Yodobashi Camera, one of Japan’s largest electronics retailers, had already quietly raised the price of the same iPhone 17 to ¥142,780.”
“The iPhone 17 Pro rose a similar amount, from ¥179,800 to ¥194,800, an 8.3% increase, and Apple Watch and AirPods models saw price bumps of up to 10% too.”
“In June, Apple raised prices globally on Macs, iPads, home devices and the Vision Pro, that increase was about the ongoing memory chip shortage driving up component costs industry-wide, the same pressure that's hit Samsung's pricing this y…”
“The Elfin Flip 4K is set to be the flagship model of the Elfin Flip range. It’s powered by a 4K RGB Triple Laser optical engine delivering 1,600 ISO Lumens of brightness, a claimed 20,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, claimed coverage of 110% …”
“The Flip 4K provides a decent degree of optical zoom, too, delivering a 0.98-1.3:1 throw ratio. Such optical zoom flexibility is unusual to find in the truly portable projection market. [...] The Flip 4K has been designed to deliver gaming…”
“In fact, XGIMI has gone to the trouble of working with the audio experts at Harman Karman to come up with a 7W speaker system with Dolby audio support that’s claimed to be capable of delivering a “room-filling sound experience”.”
“This portable/lifestyle aspect of the Elfin Flip 4K finds all of the specifications described above fitted into a book-sized (9.64 inches wide) projector that weighs just 1.55kg and is supported within an attractive support cradle that mak…”
“The final generated 10.35 billion views on social media in the first 24 hours after content was posted.”
“Finally, from June 1 to July 19, World Cup-related content across social media generated 358 billion views. Nearly 40% came via user-generated content, per Ripple Analytics.”
“In a flash, Musk messaged Fedorov that he had activated his broadband-beaming satellites for free service across the country, and began airlifting thousands of Starlink terminals despite the armed rockets that were still bombarding Ukraine…”
“It is no surprise that immediately following news of his dismissal, a number of international tech giants suggested possible cooperation.”
“The unique retro-futuristic diner, drive-in, and charging station delivered 21.2 GWh and handled 1,600 sessions daily in its inaugural year.”
“It’s our highest usage Supercharger in the world: 21.2 GWh delivered in a year, 1.6k sessions/day”
